Arnold S. Rosenberg

Adjunct Professor of Law
B.A., Cornell University
Arnold Rosenberg is Assistant Dean of Thomas Jefferson School of Law and Director of the Walter H. and Dorothy B. Diamond Graduate Program in International Tax and Financial Services. Dean Rosenberg is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Law School. At Thomas Jefferson since 2002, he has taught Bankruptcy, Secured Transactions, Consumer Protection and other commercial law courses as well as Civil Procedure and Federal Income Taxation. A consultant to the World Bank on consumer bankruptcy, Dean Rosenberg wrote a chapter in the ABA book, PRACTICE UNDER ARTICLE 9 OF THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE and is a contributor to the LexisNexis treatise LAW OF ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSFERS. His work on commercial and consumer law has appeared in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, the International Lawyer, the UCC Law Journal, the Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Review, LexisNexis, and various other publications. Before coming to Thomas Jefferson, Dean Rosenberg practiced law for 25 years in Chicago, New York and San Francisco, where he was a partner for 12 years in the law firm of Bancroft, Avery & McAlister and spent four years as General Counsel of a commercial bank. Dean Rosenberg has served as Chair of the Section on Post-Graduate Legal Education of the Association of American Law Schools, a member of the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, Chair of the State Bar of California Consumer Financial Services Committee, Co-Chair of the State Bar of California UCC Committee, Vice-Chair of the ABA International Law Section Committee on International Commercial Transactions and its Committee on International Insolvency and Secured Transactions, a Board member of the San Diego Bankruptcy Forum, and co-Chair of the Mexican Bar Liaison Committee of the San Diego County Bar Association.
Courses Include:
Bankruptcy, Civil Procedure, Commercial Transactions & eCommerce, Consumer Law & Secured Credit, Law of Banking and Financial Institutions, Payment Systems, Secured Transactions.
Scholarships
BOOKS
Jewish Liturgy as a Spiritual System (New York and London: Jason Aronson, 1997)
EDITORSHIPS
Contributing Editor, Law of Electronic Fund Transfers (LexisNexis, 2006-2009 editions)
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND ARTICLE-LENGTH WORKS
Year in Review: International Commercial Transactions, Franchising and Distribution, 44 Int’l Law. 229 (2010) (with Alfredo Rovira, Michael Daigle, Florian Jorg, Marc Ryser, William Johnson, Anders Forkman, Paul Jones, Alan Gutterman and Calvin Hamilton)
Classification of Foreign Filing Systems, in Practice Under Revised Article 9 105 (S. Sepinuck ed., 2008)
Motivational Law, 56 Clev. St. L. Rev. 111 (2008)
The 2007 Revisions to Federal Reserve Regulations B, E, M, Z, DD (LexisNexis Expert Commentaries, 2008)
Stored Value Cards and Other New Payment Devices (LexisNexis Banking Law Special Pamphlet, 2008)
Regulation of Unfair Bank Fees in the United States and the European Union: Current Trends and a Proposal for Reform, in Evolving Legislation on Consumer Credit and Trade Practices, APS Occasional Papers 7 (2007) (Proceedings of 2006 Malta Conference of the International Association of Consumer Law on Consumer Protection Law in the European Union)
Contributor to Benjamin Geva, The Law Of Electronic Funds Transfers (Newark: Matthew Bender & Co., 2006-2007 edition) (updated chapters on ACH transfers and Regulation E)
Where to File Against Non-U.S. Debtors: Applying U.C.C. §9-307(c) [Rev.] to Foreign Filing, Recording and Registration Systems, 39 UCC L. J. 109 (2006)
Better Than Cash? Global Proliferation of Payment and Consumer Protection Policy, 44 Colum. J. Transnat’l L. 520 (2006), (reprinted at 60 Consumer Fin. L. Q. Rep. 426 (2006))
Book Review, Benjamin Geva, Bank Collections and Payment Transactions, (2003), 50 Wayne L. Rev. 1209 (2005)
Applying the Revised §9-307(c) Equivalence Test to Foreign Filing Systems, ABA Commercial Law Newsletter (Dec. 2005)
Book Review, Collections and Payment Transactions, 50 Wayne State L. Rev. (2005)
The 2003 Revision of Article 7, U.C.C.: Bringing the Law of Documents of Title into the 21st Century, 4 St. Bar of Cal. Bus. Law News 21 (2004)
The Last Supper of Jesus and the Anti-Havurah Meal, 11 Mehqerei Hag (Israel) 17 (1999)
Other Scholarship:
Presentations
The 2005 BAPCPA Amendments to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, Credit Counseling, and the Role of the Courts, The World Bank, Beijing, China, May 20, 2008
American Contract and e-Commerce Law,Jilin University Faculty of Law, Changchun, China, May 15, 2008
Letters of Credit and Wire Transfers: A Primer for the General Practitioner, State Bar of California, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 2005
A Trillion Dollars a Day: The Law of Cross-Border Electronic Funds Transfers, State Bar of California, Monterey, CA, Oct. 2004
News
Expertise
Administrative Law
Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Arbitration
Bankruptcy
Business Law
- Banking and Financial Institutions
- Business Litigation
- Commercial Law
- Consumer Law
- eCommerce
- Partnership
- Secured Transactions
Civil Litigation
- California Civil Procedure
- Civil Procedure
- Civil Remedies
Employment Law
- Employment Law
- Labor Law
Intellectual Property
- Trade Secret
Property
- Real Estate Law






